4 1/2 Stars! ~ It's only a matter of weeks before Marco must testify against the Miami drug lord. After working 13 months undercover, Marco knows that El Lobo will do anything including harming his family to stop his testimony. After safely sending his mother on a six week honeymoon cruise, he goes to Chicago to convince his brother to take a long holiday. As luck would have it, Francisco is very happy to leave town for awhile, he has a chance at a part in a new soap opera filming in LA. Only one hitch though, if he doesn't land the part, he'll need his modelling career to fall back on, and that means he can't mess up the job he promised to take here in Chicago. Marco wants his brother out of town so he agrees to do the job. Rey has finally earned the commission that will launch her career as a serious artist. Her agent tells her that her latest work has lacked inspiration and that she'd better get her act together and put more passion into her work. She can't blow this opportunity. Marco's shocked when he discovers that Rey only paints nudes --- male nudes. Rey is pleasantly surprised when Marco bares all and proves to be just the model for the Mars sculpture that will earn her six figures. And Marco seems more than capable of providing the inspiration to bring her work to life, after all she can barely keep her hands off him. In Marco's mind there's only one draw back to this little modelling gig; he's really a DEA agent on the run and El Lobo will not rest until he wins. But a few weeks in Rey's studio, pretending to be her Roman god of war, is more temptation than he can resist.WOW ... what a hot, sexy, sensual read. The chemistry between Marco and Rey is there right from the beginning and keeps on right to the end. While the love scenes are explicit, they are extremely well written and creative. The scene in the sauna was very erotic. Both Rey and Marco are very diverse characters, with believable pasts and lifestyles. This is not just a book with sex scenes. I very much enjoyed the story of Marco and Rey. Bravo to Ms. Donovan on her debut novel. I'm looking forward to reading more from her.This book has been on my TBR from my Blaze subscription. I think one of the reasons it's been on the pile so long is because of the cover model for Marco. He just looked too young and didn't really appeal to me. But reading Ms. Donovan's Dear Reader letter inside the book encouraged me to look past that. I'm so very glad I did.
